Senior Communications Manager

Arlington, VA (Hybrid)

$102K/yr – $120K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

Job Summary

Own and drive Spirit of America’s storytelling by planning cross-channel content and turning field activities into compelling donor-focused narratives that advance fundraising and audience growth.

  • Cross-channel content strategy: align storytelling with organizational priorities and engagement goals.
  • Field-to-story translation: source photos, videos, and assets to feed blogs, newsletters, and campaigns.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead the planning and execution of integrated content and communications strategies across channels, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities, audience growth and engagement goals, and fundraising objectives.
  • Create high-quality storytelling that highlights Spirit of America’s impact. Write, produce, and edit content in a variety of formats, including donor communications, blog posts, case studies, newsletters, video scripts, short-form social content, and events.
  • Manage or contribute to key communications initiatives and campaigns, such as the annual report, virtual event series, year-end fundraising campaigns, and other organization-wide projects.
  • Partner with Development and International Operations teams to translate field activities into compelling communications by sourcing and shaping stories, photos, videos, and other assets.
  • Develop and execute a blog strategy.
  • Support engagement with traditional media.
  • Help ensure accuracy, consistency, and brand alignment across all external communications.
  • Manage or support visual and multimedia storytelling efforts, including coordination of video, photography, and graphics. Hire and manage external creative partners as needed.
  • Adapt and repurpose communications across platforms to maximize audience reach, engagement, and conversion.
  • Track and analyze content and campaign performance metrics, applying insights and industry best practices to strengthen communications strategies over time.
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Spirit of America

Spirit of America is a nonprofit founded in 2003 to engage citizens in preserving the promise of a free and better life. We start by working with US troops and diplomats to identify places where America’s help is needed most. We deliver assistance with flexibility and speed through US troops and our global network of partners.Together, we have protected citizen soldiers defending their freedom in Ukraine. We have empowered Taiwanese volunteers to strengthen their democracy. We have brought hope to communities impacted by terrorism and conflict in Syria, Iraq, Armenia, and Mozambique.And it all happens with support from citizens like you.No endorsement of Spirit of America by the US Department of Defense, Department of State, or their personnel is intended or implied.

Founded in 2003
Arlington, Virginia, USA
60 employees (9 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$102K/yr – $120K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
9 (15% of company)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
5.4K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$15.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
41.3%
Direct
46.6%
Referral
4.3%
Social
6.9%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~60
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Senior Communications Manager

Spirit of America · Arlington, VA · Hybrid